The Party To End All Parties was a success, and is now in the past. It was Anne (my wife)’s fortieth, held in the vineyards of the Yarra Valley, on a beautiful sunny spring day, and a random assortmen of our friends – mainly church people, because we’re new in Melbourne and don’t know many […]

I probably won’t post much this weekend – the Greatest Birthday Ever Held will take up most of my attention, and I promised to produce a thing for church on tuesday re. the formation of the Canon (contra Dan Brown), so it might not be until the following week.

There are so many terrible things happening in the world, how can I justify spending my time thinking about theology? Surely there must be more urgent things to do? In the little church I go to, we have a self mocking slogan: Cafechurch: We talk about stuff. The sting here is a sort of feeling […]

I was too busy revisiting my dark night of the soul on the weekend to blog anything – or do anything much else about my various projects. I feel rather more cheerful now, so I hope to do a better entry on the weekend.

I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer this week, and it seems to me that it must be central to Christianity – both to our lives as Christians, and theologically. I’m a bit of a head person really – as you might expect of someone whose contribution to the great global conversation which is the […]

We were talking about prayer at church the other night, and it was an interesting discussion, and I really can’t think of anything more interesting off hand to write about. So, for what it’s worth, and with the usual caveats, here are my thoughts. Actually, a lot of them are C S Lewis’s thoughts (which, […]

Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right road was wholly lost and gone. Ay me! How hard to speak of it – that rude And rough and stubborn forest! The mere breath Of memory stirs the old fear in the blood; It […]

And now I feel guilty, snivelling about my terrible sufferings when, really, I’ve hardly had any suffering at all, and my failures have chiefly been of the salutary variety. I’m just your typical, middle class, white, westerner, and my whining would look pretty pathetic to someone with a serious illness, or to someone in a […]

As penance for failing to post all week, here are two posts in the one day! Not a long post, but if you really do want to be informed, you could do a lot worse than click here. Arts and Letters Daily is a sort of aggregator of all the best stuff on the web, […]

I have been trying, without much success, to create an entry for my blog all week. I can’t say that external things have prevented me – it’s not as though I have been assailed from every side by sudden crises, or any particular increase in my, very small, responsibilities. The fact is, I have failed […]

I have been thinking about Sabellianism recently. I know this seems like an unpromising place to begin a blog, but bear with me for a moment. It was on reading an email from a friend where he touched on What Would Jesus Do bracelets, one of a series of emails that he circulates to our […]

there is much to learn. many have gone before us, and at this moment someone is clicking “publish” on a blog post which could change my life. this place will fill quickly with words of information, of knowledge, and of wisdom.